• Feedback
  • RSS Feed
  • Sitemap
Ommcom News
  • Home
  • Odisha
  • Nation
  • World
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Videos
  • Science & Tech
  • Photo Gallery
  • ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ପଢନ୍ତୁ
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Odisha
  • Nation
  • World
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Videos
  • Science & Tech
  • Photo Gallery
  • ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ପଢନ୍ତୁ
No Result
View All Result
Odisha News, Odisha Breaking News, Odisha Latest News || Ommcom News
Home World

Trump Loses Immunity Shield In Defamation Lawsuit

OMMCOM NEWS by OMMCOM NEWS
July 12, 2023
in World

Washington: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that former President Donald Trump should not be entitled to immunity for the comments he made about a woman who has accused him of rape, allowing the civil lawsuit to move forward to trial in January 2024.

E. Jean Carroll, 79, is currently seeking $10 million in the defamation lawsuit against Trump for the statements he made while President — denying her allegation of rape decades earlier’ that he didn’t know her’ and that she wasn’t his “type”.

The DOJ had previously taken the position that Trump could be defended by government attorneys because he was serving in his capacity as President when he made the remarks, the BBC reported.

But on Tuesday, Department lawyers said “there is no longer a sufficient basis to conclude that the former President was motivated by ‘more than an insignificant’ desire to serve the US government”.

In a letter filed with the judge presiding over the case, the DOJ said: “Mr Trump was motivated by a ‘personal grievance’ stemming from events that occurred many years prior to Mr Trump’s presidency.”

The letter said new evidence had emerged since he left office in early 2021.

The DOJ added that though Trump’s comments were made via official channels, the accusation that prompted the statements were in regards “to a purely personal incident: an alleged sexual assault that occurred decades prior to Mr Trump’s presidency”.

In addition, in a separate lawsuit brought by Carroll last year under a New York law allowing a one-year lookback for civil claims involving sexual assaults, a federal jury in May found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996 and awarded her $5 million for battery and defamation, reports CNN.

Trump, who is appealing the decision, does not face any jail time as a result of the civil verdict.

Welcoming the development, Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan said on Tuesday they were “grateful that the Department of Justice has reconsidered its position”.

“We have always believed that Donald Trump made his defamatory statements about our client in June 2019 out of personal animus, ill will, and spite, and not as President of the United States,” CNN quoted Kaplan as saying.

 (IANS)

Tags: former President Donald TrumpUS Department of Justice
ShareTweetSendSharePinShareSend
Previous Post

Shocking! Two Detained For Eating Half-Burnt Human Flesh In Odisha’s Mayurbhanj

Next Post

Two US Nationals Perform Amaranth Yatra

Related Posts

World

After Successful Japan Visit, PM Modi Emplanes For China To Attend SCO Summit

August 30, 2025
Donald Trump
World

Reciprocal Tariffs Struck Down By US Appeals Court; Trump Says Will Approach Supreme Court

August 30, 2025
World

PM Modi Reaches Sendai; Travels With Japanese PM Ishiba On Iconic Shinkansen

August 30, 2025
World

PM Modi Meets Governors Of 16 Japanese Prefectures In Tokyo

August 30, 2025
World

Putin Expects Tianjin Summit To Inject New Momentum Into SCO

August 30, 2025
World

US Justice Department Announces Probe Into H-1B Visa Misuse

August 30, 2025
Next Post

Two US Nationals Perform Amaranth Yatra

Salman Gushes Over SRK's 'Jawan’ Teaser; Fans Hail Their ‘Bromance’

Ranveer Completes Dubbing For 'Rocky Aur Rani...', Drops A Glimpse

khimji
  • Feedback
  • RSS Feed
  • Sitemap

© 2025 - Ommcom News. All Rights Reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Odisha
  • Nation
  • World
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Videos
  • Science & Tech
  • Photo Gallery
  • ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ପଢନ୍ତୁ

© 2025 - Ommcom News. All Rights Reserved.